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Hydroxychloroquine: Las Vegas hospital blazes own path with malaria drug to treat COVID-19
Citizens Journal ^ | By Mary Hynes Las Vegas Review-Journal

Posted on 05/09/2020 11:44:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 05/09/2020 11:44:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

A somewhat more balanced view of hydroxyquinone.


2 posted on 05/09/2020 11:47:20 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: SeekAndFind

btt


3 posted on 05/09/2020 11:47:24 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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“When the risk of death outweighs the risk of the drug, then it is appropriate to try the drug”

I don't get it. This drug has been used for years for people with chronic conditions requiring long-term use, and it has had a good safety profile. But suddenly the short-term use (5-10 days) recommended for CV treatment is fraught with danger.

All prescription drugs have contra-indications and potential harmful side-effects, but all of a sudden HCQ is treated as almost uniquely risky.
4 posted on 05/09/2020 11:51:23 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: SeekAndFind

From the article:

“...But in a pandemic, when all drugs that could possibly benefit patients still need to be thoroughly studied, success is measured by how many people hospitals are able to get off of ventilators, he said.

I fully expect that this therapy that we’re delivering will expand in Las Vegas and across the country pretty quickly as the production of this medication is ramped up,” Zyniewicz said, noting that UMC is the first hospital under his organization’s umbrella delivering the outpatient therapy.

In New York, a pandemic hot spot, clinical trials are evaluating the use of the drugs in patients who aren’t hospitalized....”

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“...“The drug has been around for 60 years … and it’s still widely used to prevent malaria,” Zyniewicz said. “I don’t know of anybody that’s going on safari that cancels their trip because they’re worried about cardiac side effects.”...”

Good on you, Dr. Zyniewicz !!


5 posted on 05/09/2020 12:02:44 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Steve_Seattle
It could be a difference in dosage.
The existing dose may be 50mg twice a day, while the new one calls for 250mg three times daily.
6 posted on 05/09/2020 12:05:47 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Experimental”? Someone needs to tell Mary Hynes that this drug has been around since the 1950’s.

65,000 people in Italy were taking hyndroxychloroquine for lupus and arthritis.

There are many studies and many examples showing great results with this drug in combating Covid-19.

In the Italian study I mentioned above, 20 people tested positive for coronavirus, and none were hospitalized and none died.

And no Mary, it’s not controversial. Only amongst mentally ill Trump deranged moonbat liberals who are opposed to hydroxychloroquine because President Trump has sung its praises.


7 posted on 05/09/2020 12:10:18 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (I'm triggered by liberals and other assorted moonbats.)
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Using hydroxychloroquine in mild or moderate outpatient cases of COVID-19 or prophylactically for healthy people has not been recommended by any organization...
AAPS Letter Asking Gov. Ducey to Rescind Executive Order concerning hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-letter-asking-gov-ducey-to-rescind-executive-order-concerning-hydroxychloroquine-in-covid-19/
8 posted on 05/09/2020 12:15:55 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Steve_Seattle

HCQ, Z-Pak & Zinc do not produce highway robbery profits for Big Pharma and hence no kickbacks to Dr.’s & hospitals. Dangerous drugs are prescribed all the time. Over 125,00o deaths per year and between 1.5 million to 2.7 million hospitalizations per year are caused by on label use of “properly prescribed” drugs (these numbers do not include overdoses) in the United States. The “prissiness” about HCQ safety is mostly about money and animus toward Trump in the medical-pharmaceutical cartel.


9 posted on 05/09/2020 12:18:42 PM PDT by TheConservativeBanker ($)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

And no Kate Brown (C Oregon), it’s not controversial. Only amongst anti American Godless democrat communists.


10 posted on 05/09/2020 12:32:38 PM PDT by Cold Heart (.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Has it ever occurred to us that there may be a large group of people who do not want the drug to be a solution for the virus? There are those who benefit from the pandemic.(like the RATS). Be prepared for a weaponized solution.


11 posted on 05/09/2020 12:39:58 PM PDT by 353FMG (Boycott China or be destroyed.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We have a contact in Vegas and Asia. Very, very high profile person and when the Wuhan was just starting to be mentioned as a potential risk to the US, this person immediately was made aware of the numbers who would be infected etc. and also urged hydroxy as THE medication to have available.


12 posted on 05/09/2020 12:44:34 PM PDT by Toespi
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It was reasonable to be skeptical of the “Zelenko Protocol” a few weeks ago, before the good doctor posted his dosing regimen for all to see.

He’s using it early, at a dose that lupus patients tolerate for lifetime, daily use, so it’s logical to assume, absent some weird effect of the CCP Virus, that it would be no more harmful for COVID patients.

The media enthusiastically reports use of high-dose “hail mary” treatments for very sick patients as evidence that HCQ “doesn’t work” or is “dangerous”. Their agenda is transparent, and has moved from being annoying, to causing actual harm.

And now, Zelenko and other are reporting some clearly positive results, with no complications from the drug regimen, and the media are silent. Do we have the standard of proof we would all like? No, not yet but in an emergent situation you have to go with the best you have on hand, and monitor your outcomes carefully “on the fly”.


13 posted on 05/09/2020 12:46:43 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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I thought Heir Sisolak had declared hydroxychloroquine verboten?


14 posted on 05/09/2020 12:51:53 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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so why no horror stories about hcq for lupus patients?

they take it long-term. why no hand wringing about their retinas or worry rgey will have side effects?

CMON LIBTARD MEDIA WHERE’S THE BITCHING ABOUT THAT????


15 posted on 05/09/2020 12:54:07 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Blazes path?? The 3-part cure HCQ+Z+A blazed then path mid-March. Do it early and do it always.

I want see an entire city “blaze a path” by going to every household giving FREE HCQ and D3 to EVERY resident who wants it and doesn’t have known complicating factors. Then turn everyone else loose except old, sick, or fat people. No quarantine. No masks. No hand washing. Touch. Hug. Kiss... on the lips! THAT would be “blazing a path”! The biggest thing we need to overcome at this point is media induced FEAR.

This does not apply to the dirty disease-ridden leftist base of the NYC area. NOT ONLY have they infected the entire nation with Coronavirus, their leftist ideology infects the nation with emotion-driven illogical stupidity. We need a thought quarantine of NYC’s leftist ideology.

16 posted on 05/09/2020 1:01:33 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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“may result in a shortage of supplies of these drugs for legitimate medical purposes.”

Saving numerous Covid-19 lives in a few days isn't a legitimate medical purpose?


17 posted on 05/09/2020 1:45:25 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Die-ggl,TWT,FCBK,NYT,WPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antf,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP,MSNBC)
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There are at least two modes of efficacy with HCQ, and possibly more. First, since it is an anti-inflammatory treatment for Lupus and RA, the drug has potent anti-inflammatory efficacy. Second, since it is a proven zinc ionophore it works to get zinc into infected cells where THE ZINC stops virus replication thus reducing the viral load so the patient's immune system can defeat the virus. The HCQ may also change the chemical environment around ACE2 receptor sites so that the virus is inhibited from entering cells it needs to replicate its RNA.

If the addition of doses of zinc is not accompanying the HCQ dosing then that efficacy is not being exploited and only mixed results will register. And perhaps that is the point, eh?

18 posted on 05/09/2020 1:56:51 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: oh8eleven

No, the dose for RA, for instance has been 200 mg twice a day or 400 mg once per day. My frail cousin has been on 400 mg once per day for eighteen years.


19 posted on 05/09/2020 2:00:01 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Right Wing Assault

they want people dead


20 posted on 05/09/2020 2:01:46 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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